What Is Free Speech?: The History of a Dangerous Idea: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the What Is Free Speech?: The History of a Dangerous Idea audiobook runs 16.1 hours unabridged, narrated by Matthew Spencer (about 10.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 16.1 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 33 days |
| 1 hour / day | 17 days |
| 2 hours / day | 9 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 11 days |
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What our data says
- At 16.1 hours, it runs longer than 90% of the 8,990 Current Affairs, Law, & Politics audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Matthew Spencer
Matthew Spencer narrates 18 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 237 hours in all.
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Other recordings
- The 2025 recording read by TBD runs about the same length (16.1 hours).
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
What Is Free Speech?: The History of a Dangerous Idea is an audiobook by Fara Dabhoiwala: a 16.1-hour unabridged recording, read by Matthew Spencer, released August 5, 2025, on the Current Affairs, Law, & Politics and World shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 16.1 hrs
- Narrated by
- Matthew Spencer
- Released
- August 5, 2025
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Current Affairs, Law, & Politics, World
- ISBN
- 9781696620277
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the What Is Free Speech?: The History of a Dangerous Idea audiobook?
What Is Free Speech?: The History of a Dangerous Idea runs 16.1 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 10.7 hours.
Is the What Is Free Speech?: The History of a Dangerous Idea audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates What Is Free Speech?: The History of a Dangerous Idea?
What Is Free Speech?: The History of a Dangerous Idea is narrated by Matthew Spencer.
Is What Is Free Speech?: The History of a Dangerous Idea worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 10.7 hours, saving 5.4 hours.